Officials Study `Suspicious` House Fire

December 18, 1985|By James H. Tolpin, Staff writer

Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue officials and the Sheriff`s Office are investigating a ``suspicious`` fire that caused severe damage to a $200,000 house in the Loggers Run II development west of Boca Raton.

Fire-Rescue Operations information officer Ken Fisher said the family that lived in the house, in the 21000 block of Reflection Lane, moved out Monday.

Firefighters arrived at the four-bedroom house at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and brought the flames under control in about 25 minutes, officials said.

Fisher said he hadn`t learned the family`s name, but investigators were attempting to contact them.

William Creamer, a neighbor of the burned house, said he heard a small explosion about 5:40 a.m., but thought it was thunder.

When Creamer went outside to get his paper about 5:50 a.m., he saw flames leaping from his neighbor`s house.

``It was all in flames,`` he said.

Then he called 911 and alerted other neighbors.

Creamer said he did not know his neighbor`s name, though he believed the man was a pharmacist with a business in Fort Lauderdale. He said the man lived with his wife and two children.